Neanderthals and mammoths walked here. The gravel under your feet has secrets.
Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain's biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years. In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.
Acting
Attenborough at 95, still the GOAT narrator
Production
CGI mammoth herds that actually look real
Writing
Making gravel quarries genuinely thrilling
Director
Jamie E. Lochhead
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The two amateur fossil hunters, Sally and Neville, found the site on their very first fossil hunt together—literally beginner's luck of prehistoric proportions.
This was among Attenborough's last on-location documentaries; he filmed it during the pandemic when most crews thought he was done with field work.
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